Guidance for Solving Environmental Challenges of Mining, Construction, Processing and Oil and Gas Fields Projects
Contents: 1. Understanding Environmental Policy Instruments in Relation to Business: Developing Statue. 2. Regulations are Good Tools for Achieving Environmental Excellence In Mining Sectors. 3. Review of the System of Environmental Clearance of Mining projects in India. 4. Legislative & Clearance Procedure for Captive Mining of Coal. 5. Environmental Clearance of Mining Project: Concepts and Procedures. 6. Corporation-NGO-Government: From Conflicts To Co-Operation. 7.Corporate Governance Related to Indigenous Community: Special Reference to Mining. 8. Environmental Challenges, Mitigation, Control and Containment of Pollutants for the Oil and Gas Industry. 9. Environmental Impacts of Mineral Processing Projects and their Management. 10. Basic Design Aspects of Tailings Disposal Facilities. 11. Surface Subsidence. 12. Analysis of Different Methods and Mechanisms of Acid Mine Drainage Treatment- A Review. 13. Reclamation Practices in Surface Mines: Issues and Considerations. 14. Rock Slope Stability. 15. Loose Mine Waste Dump: Planning, Design, Construction and Layout. 16. Aspects of Mining Workers Safety at Workplaces. 17. Development of Post-Mining Landscapes and Economic Regeneration Efforts: A Case Study. 18. Understanding the Art of Negotiations: A Necessary Skill in Environmental Clearance. 19. Considerations for Revitalization of Local Economy in Active and Abandoned Regional Mine Areas. 20. Separating Oil from Wastewater Necessity, Processes and Methods. 21. Legality and Skill in Environmental Report Writing for Project Clearance.
The minerals industry, which includes minerals, metals, oil and gas, in its value added in upstreams as well as in infrastructure and construction, contributes to the range of 10-16% of any country’s annual Gross Domestic Products (GDP). The sector has been under increased focus due to heavy investment possibilities and resulting employment generation that are quite resilient to downturns, industrial cycles and recession. At the same time this industry, in its huge diversity and complications, attracts attention from the environmental regulators, NGOs and the public due to visible and perceptible pollution. For an industrial developer, the projects’ performance becomes critical in the face of the above dynamics.
Environmental clearance of Mining, Construction, Processing and Oil and Gas Fields Projects is becoming more stringent everyday. That is understandable and acceptable, but what is more alarming is the lack of skill sets required to handle such challenges that can come from different agencies such as the department of environment, department of forest, NGOs, the general public, and indigenous peoples to name a few.
This book is a good companion to those interested in project clearance in particular, and environmental management in general.
